This exhibit is part of the Brown Symposium XXXVII, which examines the changes that 3D printing will have on human creativity for developing future solutions in the Fine Arts and Sciences.

The exhibit includes more than 30 works from around the world by expert sculptors in this field. The exhibit will showcase the works of Bruce Beasley, Keith Brown, Jérémie Brunet, Brit Bunkley, Dan ...more

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$3 Shows presents Austin Local Love

$3 Shows presents a special March 12 show to help kickoff SXSW in Austin! This showcase will feature all local bands PLUS local art! It is a chance for Austinites to discover great new music before 200,000 additional people come to town! This event is sponsored by Full Gallop, Sole Glow Collective, JuiceLand, GlitterTribe and Love...

Paper Jam 2015

Paper Jam is the inaugural juried exhibition at WPA's Bone Black Print Studio and Gallery. Bone Black is located within Canopy, one of Austin's largest fine art complexes, featuring many other studios and galleries. The goal of Paper Jam is to demonstrate that individual works of art need not be limited to a single technique and that paper is a...

Visual Journaling with Adrienne Hodge

Do you have an Instagram account? If so, you are no stranger to the art of visual journaling, but how often do you sit and reflect on your day in a more creatively thoughtful way? Have you thought about keeping a journal or daily sketchbook before, but don’t know where to begin? In this 3-hour workshop, you will learn that there is an...

Do you have an Instagram account? If so, you are no stranger to the art of visual journaling, but how often do you sit and reflect on your day in a more creatively thoughtful way? Have you thought...more

Third Thursday at the Blanton Museum of Art

Swing by the Blanton for their monthly free day of art and activities, featuring yoga in the galleries, tours, a film screening, happy hour specials in the Blanton Café, and more. The museum is open late – until 9pm!

Screenings at the Blanton: When I Rise

Join the Blanton for a special viewing of When I Rise, the acclaimed documentary about Barbara Smith Conrad, a University of Texas opera student who in 1957 was removed from the cast of a campus production of Dido and Aeneas under pressure from the state legislature, to be replaced with a white performer. Following the screening,...

Liquid Land // Land of Fire Exhition of Photography by Rena Effendi

Liquid Land//Land of Fire is a collection of personal images from internationally acclaimed photographer Rena Effendi revealing the struggles and resilience of the people living within the Absheron peninsula of her homeland Azerbaijan. Her images of people and life are combined with images by her late father, a Soviet entomologist, of rare...

Underground Photography at Goat Cave with Shelley Wood

Join us for this exclusive opportunity to explore Goat Cave with your camera. If you are interested in learning basic techniques to successfully take photographs in caves or low light situations, then this is the photography adventure for you. This three hour workshop will discuss different lighting and shooting techniques, photographer...

Join us for this exclusive opportunity to explore Goat Cave with your camera. If you are interested in learning basic techniques to successfully take photographs in caves or low light situations,...more

Midday Music Series at the Blanton

The Midday Music Series is a collaboration between the Blanton Museum of Art and the Butler School of Music featuring monthly performances that explore the relationship between visual art and music through a variety of genres. This month, the Butler Opera Center performs scenes from Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro and Tiepolo's The...

Gabe Leonard: Desperados

ART on 5th is pleased to announce the highly anticipated exhibition of Gabe Leonard’s artwork featuring his new collection “Desperados.” The exhibition features never before seen original oil paintings, artist’s proof editions, and limited edition pieces. This is an opportunity you do not want to miss!
On Saturday,...

Portraits from Photos with David Thornberry

The goal for this one day workshop is to learn how to translate the visual information from a photo into charcoal or pencil drawings. The interpretation of the photographic image into a drawing is a tricky process and the student will learn the possible pitfalls and how to avoid them.

000000: Kyle Evans & Jessica Mathews

000000 is the experimental responsive process between Kyle Evans and Jessica Mathews. Using hexadecimal black as a point of departure, information is filtered through both digital and analog methodologies and is thus altered, multiplied and compressed. This conversation and translation of data becomes tangible through paint, code, video and...

Tour The Talent

Tour the Talent is a two-day Art Studio Tour in the Hill Country on April 11-12, 11 am to 6 pm. The 6 Art Studios, with over 30 diverse artists highlights Artists Alliance of the Hill Country’s finest talent at this admission free event with mixed media artists, painters, sculptors, Japanese woodblock printmaking, pyrography, metal,...

Wine and Art Weekend

The San Marcos Main Street Program, Art Squared and the San Marcos Arts Advocates will host Wine and Art Weekend on Friday, April 10, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. and Saturday, April 11, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Downtown San Marcos.
The event will feature works from local artists hosted inside more than a dozen downtown...

The San Marcos Main Street Program, Art Squared and the San Marcos Arts Advocates will host Wine and Art Weekend on Friday, April 10, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. and Saturday, April 11, from 3 p.m. to 6...more

ALTAR VI: Shapes (and Other Shapes)

Presented by The Museum of Human Achievement

April 11 - April 12, 2015

In the first phase of trance an altered state of consciousness would come about. People would experience geometric shapes commonly known as entoptic phenomena. These would include zigzags, chevrons, dots, flecks, grids, vortices and U-shapes.

During the second phase of trance people try to make sense of the entoptic phenomena. They...

Underground Photography at Goat Cave with Shelley Wood

Join us for this exclusive opportunity to explore Goat Cave with your camera. If you are interested in learning basic techniques to successfully take photographs in caves or low light situations, then this is the photography adventure for you. This three hour workshop will discuss different lighting and shooting techniques, photographer...

Join us for this exclusive opportunity to explore Goat Cave with your camera. If you are interested in learning basic techniques to successfully take photographs in caves or low light situations,...more

The Cohen New Works Festival presents Eye See... I Forget

The Cohen New Works Festival presents Eye See…I Forget, an installation that will evolve each day of the festival. Crawl inside the brain of an Alzheimer’s patient and witness the disease’s 7 stage effects one day at a time. Eye See…I Forget is a visual reminder of how precious memory is and how task and activities are...

2015 Sunset Valley ArtFest

The Sunset Valley ArtFest is a free admission outdoor event that hosts many artists from the area, displaying varying forms of art, woodworking, oil paints, and jewelry. The festival also has live music on the main and kids stage, local foods, and much more. Sunset Valley ArtFest, which was once started by a group of citizens from Sunset...

The Sunset Valley ArtFest is a free admission outdoor event that hosts many artists from the area, displaying varying forms of art, woodworking, oil paints, and jewelry. The festival also has live...more

Underground Photography at Goat Cave with Shelley Wood

Join us for this exclusive opportunity to explore Goat Cave with your camera. If you are interested in learning basic techniques to successfully take photographs in caves or low light situations, then this is the photography adventure for you. This three hour workshop will discuss different lighting and shooting techniques, photographer...

Join us for this exclusive opportunity to explore Goat Cave with your camera. If you are interested in learning basic techniques to successfully take photographs in caves or low light situations,...more

WEST Austin Studio Tour at The Arc of the Arts Studio

Come out for Austin’s 4th annual WEST: a free, self-guided tour that champions the abundance of talent within Austin’s diverse creative community. Visit our studio on the tour and see new works by the Arc of the Arts Artists!

For over 60 years, The Arc of the Capital Area has empowered Central Texans with intellectual and...

Stoneware, Porcelain & Glaze with Eric Jackson

All over the world, people make useful objects and figures out of clay. Become enthralled with the world's most humble and exalted medium. All skill levels are welcome in this class. Beginning students will be shown basic clay techniques, from hand forming to wheel work to the art of glazing. Advanced students will benefit from the...

Underground Photography at Goat Cave with Shelley Wood

Join us for this exclusive opportunity to explore Goat Cave with your camera. If you are interested in learning basic techniques to successfully take photographs in caves or low light situations, then this is the photography adventure for you. This three hour workshop will discuss different lighting and shooting techniques, photographer...

Join us for this exclusive opportunity to explore Goat Cave with your camera. If you are interested in learning basic techniques to successfully take photographs in caves or low light situations,...more

Darkroom Essentials with Meg McLaughlin

Designed for anyone interested in learning photographic fundamentals, this course will help students develop an understanding of photographic principles, history, and technology through darkroom work and discussion. Learn the ins-and-outs of processing and printing your own black and white images, experiment with cyanotypes, and play with...

Designed for anyone interested in learning photographic fundamentals, this course will help students develop an understanding of photographic principles, history, and technology through darkroom...more

Ceramics Independent Study

This independent study is open to anyone with previous basic ceramic experience. Sign up if you have taken and completed four Dougherty Arts School ceramic classes or fill out an Independent Study Form to be approved by Arts School Supervisor. Instruction is not provided. Participants supply their own clay and supplies, cone 10 glazes and...

This independent study is open to anyone with previous basic ceramic experience. Sign up if you have taken and completed four Dougherty Arts School ceramic classes or fill out an Independent Study...more

Ceramics Independent Study

This independent study is open to anyone with previous basic ceramic experience. Sign up if you have taken and completed four Dougherty Arts School ceramic classes or fill out an Independent Study Form to be approved by Arts School Supervisor. Instruction is not provided. Participants supply their own clay and supplies, cone 10 glazes and...

This independent study is open to anyone with previous basic ceramic experience. Sign up if you have taken and completed four Dougherty Arts School ceramic classes or fill out an Independent Study...more

Wildlife Art, Nature-Inspired Sculptures

Enjoy a beautiful painting exhibit indoors and serene sculptures on the grounds at the Wildflower Center while learning about native plants, visiting the café and store and other offerings. In “Primordial Patterns,” Jules Buck Jones captures owls and other wildlife in his edgy oils and watercolors. His works are inspired by...

Nature Photos, Watercolor Exhibits

Austin photographer Brenda Lindfors has made a career of bringing out the beauty of subjects that range from landscapes to family portraits. In “Convergence,” she showcases abstract images of the surface of water that emphasize strong, clean, graphic lines. The images that look like paintings record the dynamic interaction among...

PLAY ME - Exhibition of Mechanical Sculptures by Yuliya Lanina

Please join us for an exhibition of new work by Yuliya Lanina of her signature mechanical sculptures with original musical scores by Yevgeniy Sharlat. Also, on exhibition are new small works on canvas and paper.

Yuliya Lanina received her MFA in animation at Hunter College and has fused the lines between sculpture, painting and...

TIPS On Art Exhibit Program

TIPS On Art chooses community business partners to exhibit & sell visual art created by Austin artists. We believe that putting art on the way of where people are going raises the bar for including original art in daily life. Exhibits focus on telling the artists stories and educating about their creative process for an informed...

Storytime Art

July 18, 2014 - July 15, 2016

Storytime Art, or StArt! is a great opportunity for your young child to experience art! Storytimes are geared to the 3 – 5 year old preschooler, but some projects could easily translate into a Mommy and Me project for those a little younger. And, of course, anyone older is welcome, as well! Storytimes always include at least one book and...

23rd Street Artists' Market

The 23rd Street Artists’ Market, is Austin’s original open air market for artists who make and sell their own work. Licensed artists sell their handcrafted art year-round on 23rd St. at Guadalupe St. across from the UT Tower.

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